Wisconsin unemployment rate in March remained at record-low 2.9% for second month

Cory Tucker, a Brown Deer High School student and apprentice in the Vector Technologies Ltd. Youth Apprenticeship Program, works at the company last year.(Photo: Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)Buy Photo

In January, the state unemployment rate was estimated at 3.1%. The state economy has been adding jobs since 2010, the low point of the last recession, when the unemployment index rose as high as 9.3%.

For a second straight month, Wisconsin hit a record high in March on another metric, the number of Wisconsinites who hold a job. The state workforce agency estimated that 3,078,100 people were employed in March, up slightly from previous record in the previous month, which was 3,068,400.

The state agency’s jobs estimates are based on preliminary estimates from a monthly survey with sparse sample sizes and subject to revision.